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News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars, The Doors

Photo: Kempin/FilmMagic DMX was arrested for violating the terms of his probation, admitting he’d used cocaine over the last nine months, Reuters reports. The rapper is currently in a Phoenix jail. Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band: the pop star’s first track pack includes “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster” and “Poker Face” — and as a special bonus, the version of “Poker Face” Eric Cartman made famous on South Park will also be up for sale in the game’s Music Store next week. Canadian rocker

Published: 2010-03-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News

Weezer Announce Tour With Angels and Airwaves, Tokyo Police Club

After hinting at their tour itinerary in a clever YouTube video, Rivers Cuomo and Co. have revealed their Red Album tour dates. Weezer will be bringing along both Angels and Airwaves and Tokyo Police Club this time around, leaving their Hootenanny tour buddy (and “Pork & Beans” subject) Tay Zonday to mull how he’ll follow up “Chocolate Rain.” The band kicks off their new tour with a September 23th show in Boston then circle the country before ending the tour a month later in Atlanta on October 25th. Full dates after the jump. Weezer September 23 - Boston, MA @ Tsongas Arena September 24 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden September 26 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Casino September 27 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Center September 29 - Detroit, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills September 30 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Center October 2 - Chicago, IL @ All State Arena October 3 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Arena October 5 - Denver, CO @ Broomfield October 7 - Salt Lake City, UT @ E Center October 9 - Portland OR @ Memorial Coliseum October 10 - Vancouver, BC @ GM Place October 11 - Seattle, WA @ Key Arena October 13 - San Jose, CA @ Events Center October 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum October 17 - San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena October 18 - Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona State Fair October 20 - Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center October 21 - Dallas, TX @ Nokia Theater October 23 - Houston, TX @ Reliant Arena October 25 - Atlanta, GA @ Gwinnett Arena

Published: 2008-08-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Motley Crue Have Their Day in Los Angeles

The Mayor of Los Angeles has declared today, July 31st, “Mötley Crüe Saints of Los Angeles Day” in the California city. The band will mark the occasion by joining a partnership with the Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd. to give back to local artists. So why are Motley Crue getting their own day? Anyone who’s read about the band’s debauch exploits in their biography The Dirt — which the band drew from for their new album Saints of Los Angeles — can attest to how much the band has contributed to the City of Angels. Tommy Lee and the gang better not enjoy Crüe Day that much, however, as the band is scheduled to play a concert in Phoenix, Arizona tonight.

Published: 2008-07-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

News Ticker: Robert Plant, Digital Hip-Hop, Gnarls Barkley, Fall Out Boy

According to the U.K.’s Sunday Mirror, Robert Plant turned down £100 million, or around $200 million, to participate in a full Led Zeppelin reunion tour. A “band source” reportedly said that despite Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones’ eagerness to take their reunion on the road, Plant “wanted to leave last year’s concert as their legacy.” Plant is scheduled to embark on a joint tour with Alison Krauss in April. Indie labels Amalgam Digital and Def Jux are looking to stoke hip-hop digital sales (which lag far behind other genres) by expanding their online stores and including extras like bonus tracks, exclusive albums and a capella versions. “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul?” — the next single from Gnarls Barkley’s forthcoming The Odd Couple — has been leaked onto the Internet courtesy of the Roots’ ?uestlove, who posted the song (and his lip-synching of it) on his YouTube page. Fall Out Boy will release **** Live in Phoenix on April 1st. The CD/DVD set will feature a twenty-two-song live performance from last year’s Honda Civic Tour, their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” (featuring John Mayer on guitar), the band’s eight videos and behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-03-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Phoenix Cover Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”

Four albums into Phoenix’s career, we’ve come to expect infectious dance-pop singles like “Lisztomania” and “1901″ from the Grammy-nominated French quartet. So Phoenix’s acoustic cover of Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” recorded live for Germany’s Musikexpress (via P4K), comes as a surprising, refreshing change of pace from the band, as Thomas Mars and Co. deliver a pretty faithful rendition of the famed Blonde on Blonde closer — even though Phoenix’s version is truncated down to a

Published: 2010-01-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Phoenix, Rock News

Watch Phoenix Talk Grammy Nod, Inspiration Behind Hit “1901 “

Rolling Stone caught up with Phoenix’s Deck D’Arcy and Laurent Brancowitz just days after the French rockers received their first Grammy nomination in the Best Alternative Album category for their fourth album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The nod is a rare accomplishment for a band from France — so rare, in fact, that the group were clueless about its significance. “We were playing a show in New York when suddenly the head of our label came in the dressing room and looked very serious, so he told u

Published: 2009-12-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Phoenix, Rock News, Videos

AC/DC Postpone Six Shows Due to Singer Johnson’s Health

AC/DC have been forced to postpone six tour dates because frontman Brian Johnson is recovering from a medical procedure and his doctors have advised him to take time to rest. According to the band’s official Website, the group’s October 1st show in Phoenix will be postponed, along with gigs in Las Vegas, Louisville, Kansas City, Des Moines and Milwaukee. The Black Ice World Tour gets back on track October 16th in Washington, DC. Check out photos from AC/DC’s tour launch. AC/DC kicked off their

Published: 2009-09-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

On the verge: It's a good year for French band Phoenix

Their '1901' is in the top 30 on the alternative airplay chart, but success has come neither easily nor quickly for French synth-rock ...

Published: 2009-08-23 Provider: USA Today

Linkin Park's new album heralds change

To get down to the dozen tracks on the new album Minutes to Midnight, the members of Linkin Park made about 150 demos. "A lot ...

Published: 2007-05-18 Provider: USA Today

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix

The fourth album for the French rock band was produced with Philippe Zdar. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-05-27 Provider: Metacritic

Tour Tracker: Dave Matthews Band, Jeff Beck and Jennifer Hudson & Robin Thicke

Photo: Knapp/Getty The Dave Matthews Band plots a massive tour that’ll take them across the country and back again through October in support of their new, still-untitled album that’s out June 2nd. Plus, soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jeff Beck announces a small venue tour, and a pair of Grammy performers — Jennifer Hudson and Robin Thicke — map out a joint tour. Full dates to all three treks after the jump. Dave Matthews Band April 14 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden April 15 - East Rutherford, NJ @ IZOD Center April 17 - Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena April 18 - Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena April 20 - Pelham, AL @ Verizon Wireless Center April 22 - Raleigh, NC @ TWC Music Pavilion April 24 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre April 25 - Nashville, TN @ Vanderbilt Stadium April 26 - New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival April 28 - Alpharetta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre April 29 - Alpharetta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre May 1 - The Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion May 2 - Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center May 5 - Albuquerque, NM @ Journal Pavilion May 6 - Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Wireless Pavilion May 8 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena May 9 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena May 27 - Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center May 29 - Boston, MA @ TBA May 30 - Boston, MA @ TBA June 5 - Hartford, CT @ New England Dodge Music Center June 6 - Hartford, CT @ New England Dodge Music Center June 9 - Toronto, ONT @ Molson Amphitheatre June 10 - Montreal, QUE @ Parc Jean Drapeau June 12 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 13 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 16 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center June 17 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre June 19 - Burgettstown, PA @ Post-Gazette Pavilion June 20 - Burgettstown, PA @ Post-Gazette Pavilion July 18 - East Troy, WI @ Alpin

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Tom Waits Spins Yarns, Sings About Jesus at Tour Opener in Phoenix

“The world is not my home,” Tom Waits sang on the opening night of his highly anticipated U.S. tour. “I’m just passing through.” One place Waits has always made his own is the stage, so no surprise that last night’s looked like a junkyard at midnight: nebulously lit and hung in mist. Flanked by a menacing installation of horn speakers crackling out old-time phonograph music and surrounded by a graveyard of cigar-box banjoes, bullhorns and ramshackle guitars, Waits’ sextet took the stage at Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre around 8:30 and powered into a lurching medley of “Lucinda” and “Aint Goin Down to the Well.” Set against his own towering silhouette, Waits was a drawn sketch of twisted limbs: heaving and panting like a stalled locomotive. Clutching the microphone with both hands as if it were the only thing keeping him up, he stomped his workman’s boots so hard the floorboards coughed up thick clouds of dust into the spotlight around his legs. The 25 songs the band played were fever dreams from an old, weird America whose greatest trick has been convincing the world it’s been eradicated by modern life: an underworld of “Rain Dogs,” “Eyeball Kids” and “Black Market Babies”; of “Trampled Roses” and “Christmas Cards from Hookers in Minneapolis.” “Jesus Gonna Be Here” Waits coughed, but “God’s Away on Business.” Waits’ subjects are down and out American grotesques, and he spent the better part of his performance playing the demented preacher to that set: slightly oversized suit and bowler hat, arms spread out to their length, palms down, wide hands quavering or waggling an index finger. “Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?” he sang. “Come on up to the house.” Sonically, Waits still sings like the devil he’s slated to play in the new Terry Gilliam flick, and h

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows